linux.git/net/wireless/core.h, branch v3.4 Linux kernel source tree cfg80211: export cfg80211_ref_bss 2012-02-06T19:50:37+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2012-01-20T12:55:26+00:00 4c0c0b75e0c35ddb8f61c06bcbffede63ab4f4a2 This is needed by mac80211 to keep a reference to a BSS alive for the auth process. Remove the old version of cfg80211_ref_bss() since it's not actually used. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
This is needed by mac80211 to keep a reference
to a BSS alive for the auth process. Remove the
old version of cfg80211_ref_bss() since it's
not actually used.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: stop tracking authenticated state 2012-02-06T19:50:37+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2012-01-20T12:55:25+00:00 95de817b9034d50860319f6033ec85d25024694c To track authenticated state seems to have been a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to have out of band authentication (FT), tracking multiple authentications caused more problems than it ever helped, and the implementation in mac80211 is too complex. Remove all this complexity, and let userspace do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with that just fine. Association is still tracked of course, but authentication no longer is. Local auth state changes are thus no longer of value, so ignore them completely. This will also help implement SAE -- asking the driver to do an authentication is now almost equivalent to sending an authentication frame, with the exception of shared key authentication which is still handled completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
To track authenticated state seems to have been
a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to
have out of band authentication (FT), tracking
multiple authentications caused more problems
than it ever helped, and the implementation in
mac80211 is too complex.

Remove all this complexity, and let userspace
do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with
that just fine. Association is still tracked of
course, but authentication no longer is. Local
auth state changes are thus no longer of value,
so ignore them completely.

This will also help implement SAE -- asking the
driver to do an authentication is now almost
equivalent to sending an authentication frame,
with the exception of shared key authentication
which is still handled completely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: Fix race in bss timeout 2011-12-13T20:30:28+00:00 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com 2011-12-08T08:58:47+00:00 adbde344dc12514d68620afae8d34035e72544b1 It is quite possible to run into a race in bss timeout where the drivers see the bss entry just before notifying cfg80211 of a roaming event but it got timed out by the time rdev->event_work got scehduled from cfg80211_wq. This would result in the following WARN-ON() along with the failure to notify the user space of the roaming. The other situation which is happening with ath6kl that runs into issue is when the driver reports roam to same AP event where the AP bss entry already got expired. To fix this, move cfg80211_get_bss() from __cfg80211_roamed() to cfg80211_roamed(). [158645.538384] WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:586 __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1() [158645.538810] Call Trace: [158645.538838] [<c1033527>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a [158645.538917] [<c14cfacf>] ? __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1 [158645.538946] [<c103354b>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13 [158645.539055] [<c14cfacf>] __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1 [158645.539086] [<c14beb5b>] cfg80211_process_rdev_events+0x153/0x1cc [158645.539166] [<c14bd57b>] cfg80211_event_work+0x26/0x36 [158645.539195] [<c10482ae>] process_one_work+0x219/0x38b [158645.539273] [<c14bd555>] ? wiphy_new+0x419/0x419 [158645.539301] [<c10486cb>] worker_thread+0xf6/0x1bf [158645.539379] [<c10485d5>] ? rescuer_thread+0x1b5/0x1b5 [158645.539407] [<c104b3e2>] kthread+0x62/0x67 [158645.539484] [<c104b380>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x42/0x42 [158645.539514] [<c151309a>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
It is quite possible to run into a race in bss timeout where
the drivers see the bss entry just before notifying cfg80211
of a roaming event but it got timed out by the time rdev->event_work
got scehduled from cfg80211_wq. This would result in the following
WARN-ON() along with the failure to notify the user space of
the roaming. The other situation which is happening with ath6kl
that runs into issue is when the driver reports roam to same AP
event where the AP bss entry already got expired. To fix this,
move cfg80211_get_bss() from __cfg80211_roamed() to cfg80211_roamed().

[158645.538384] WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:586
__cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1()
[158645.538810] Call Trace:
[158645.538838]  [<c1033527>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a
[158645.538917]  [<c14cfacf>] ? __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1
[158645.538946]  [<c103354b>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13
[158645.539055]  [<c14cfacf>] __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1
[158645.539086]  [<c14beb5b>] cfg80211_process_rdev_events+0x153/0x1cc
[158645.539166]  [<c14bd57b>] cfg80211_event_work+0x26/0x36
[158645.539195]  [<c10482ae>] process_one_work+0x219/0x38b
[158645.539273]  [<c14bd555>] ? wiphy_new+0x419/0x419
[158645.539301]  [<c10486cb>] worker_thread+0xf6/0x1bf
[158645.539379]  [<c10485d5>] ? rescuer_thread+0x1b5/0x1b5
[158645.539407]  [<c104b3e2>] kthread+0x62/0x67
[158645.539484]  [<c104b380>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x42/0x42
[158645.539514]  [<c151309a>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd

Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides. 2011-11-21T21:22:06+00:00 Ben Greear greearb@candelatech.com 2011-11-18T19:31:59+00:00 7e7c8926b2f4e3453b8aeb39cd814d2af3fec24f This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40, and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for drivers that support it. The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask. Attemping to disable features that are not supported will take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask. This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional patch will enable the feature in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
drivers that support it.

The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.

Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
take no affect, but will not return errors.  This is to aid
backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.

This patch only enables the infrastructure.  An additional
patch will enable the feature in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK 2011-11-09T21:13:54+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2011-11-04T10:18:21+00:00 e247bd9068e3e86c3571147c128883596ace9d05 For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag. Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to
avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is
already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request
not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag.

Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
few lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: allow registering to beacons 2011-11-09T21:13:51+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2011-11-04T10:18:17+00:00 5e760230e42cf759bd923457ca2753aacf2e656e Add the ability to register to received beacon frames to allow implementing OLBC logic in userspace. The registration is per wiphy since there's no point in receiving the same frame multiple times. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Add the ability to register to received beacon frames
to allow implementing OLBC logic in userspace. The
registration is per wiphy since there's no point in
receiving the same frame multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frame 2011-09-27T18:34:10+00:00 Rajkumar Manoharan rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com 2011-09-25T09:23:30+00:00 e9f935e3e8dc0bddd0df6d148165d95925422502 Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz without disabling 11b rates. This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame transmission. Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management
frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling
CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe
request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz
without disabling 11b rates.

This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and
NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame
transmission.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: Validate cipher suite against supported ciphers 2011-09-27T18:29:54+00:00 Jouni Malinen jouni@qca.qualcomm.com 2011-09-21T15:14:56+00:00 38ba3c57af1c737966fb58bcbeecdc71f5f4fa90 Instead of using a hardcoded list of cipher suites in nl80211.c, use a shared function in util.c to verify that the driver advertises support for the specified cipher. This provides more accurate validation of the values and allows vendor-specific cipher suites to be added in drivers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Instead of using a hardcoded list of cipher suites in nl80211.c, use a
shared function in util.c to verify that the driver advertises support
for the specified cipher. This provides more accurate validation of the
values and allows vendor-specific cipher suites to be added in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: hold reg_mutex when updating regulatory 2011-09-14T17:26:39+00:00 Sven Neumann s.neumann@raumfeld.com 2011-08-30T21:38:53+00:00 eac03e381957a05f3842ceb8de987a1025966ecf The function wiphy_update_regulatory() uses the static variable last_request and thus needs to be called with reg_mutex held. This is the case for all users in reg.c, but the function was exported for use by wiphy_register(), from where it is called without the lock being held. Fix this by making wiphy_update_regulatory() private and introducing regulatory_update() as a wrapper that acquires and holds the lock. Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
The function wiphy_update_regulatory() uses the static variable
last_request and thus needs to be called with reg_mutex held.
This is the case for all users in reg.c, but the function was
exported for use by wiphy_register(), from where it is called
without the lock being held.

Fix this by making wiphy_update_regulatory() private and introducing
regulatory_update() as a wrapper that acquires and holds the lock.

Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by:  Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211: allow userspace to control supported rates in scan 2011-07-19T20:49:58+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2011-07-18T16:08:35+00:00 34850ab25d74ab4eead62c3b4a9e8036a25cc669 Some P2P scans are not allowed to advertise 11b rates, but that is a rather special case so instead of having that, allow userspace to request the rate sets (per band) that are advertised in scan probe request frames. Since it's needed in two places now, factor out some common code parsing a rate array. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Some P2P scans are not allowed to advertise
11b rates, but that is a rather special case
so instead of having that, allow userspace
to request the rate sets (per band) that are
advertised in scan probe request frames.

Since it's needed in two places now, factor
out some common code parsing a rate array.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>